Vehicle-wheel.



S. D. BROOKS* VEHIGLEW L. 1 APPLIUATIoNiP'ILB r 11,4,1910

11,0%,3230 1 Patented Augs, 1911.

BY @mmf v ATTUH/VEV for wheels of carriages, automobiles and spokes 1, 2, 3, etc.

` C. having a projecting base l).

' v having at their outer ends,.heads, f and f.

',pass, and n these bolts, E and E I mount ,useful Improvements in VehicleVheels, of iwhich the following is a specification.

the coil s rinUs F and F I mount an outer UNiTED .STATES ArasiereroFFicE.

vSIILIIEN'US D. BROOKS, 0F oNEoNTA, NEW YORK, AssIGNoR 'o CHARLES N. MURDOCK,

- 0F oNEoNTA,

NEW` YORK.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

Application led February 4, 1910. Serial No. 542,154.

To all whom'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILENI'SD. llnooks, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oneonta, in the county of Otsego and State of New York, have invented certain new and My invention relates to improvements in flexible or spring tires for wagons, automobiles or other wheel vehicles.

The objects of my invention are to provide adurable but' flexible spring tire and rim other Wheel vehicles, and to produce a spring yielding surface for the wheel rim without the use ofa pneumatic tube or tire. I attain these objects by the mechanism herein described, in which- Figure A1 is ali elevation ot' my device. Fig. 2 isa vertical section of a portion of the wheel rim, in vthe preferred forni of my invention, and Fig'. f isa similar view in a modified form of my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar throughout the several views.

In my device. A represents the ordinary hub of a wheel, having mounted upon it the (lu the end oftearh spoke I mount the metallic ferrule Il. On the interior rim, X of the wheel, and opposite the end of each spoke, I mount a metallic socket. The base l) is held in position-by the bolts li and li.

parts which bolts E and Il pass inward throughthe rim of the wheel, and through the base I), and are sui-mounted by the cap nuts' g or g.

lVithin the socket C, I mount the coil spring F.V Onvthe interior surface of the rim X, I have the chambers a and a through which the bolts E and E. before mentioned,.-

theecoil springs F and F. Resting upon or second wheel rim, Y, which has let into its inner surface, chambers b and b', inwhich rest the lower ends of coil springs I1" and F". The coil springs form a 'flexible and yielding support for thewheel rim Y,whieh is held in place by the blts E and E. The bolts E and E' are slidably mountedin ring X, and also in base D, so that whenever pressure is exerted on the wheel the various Ilaving npw described my invention,.what

I claim as new, and for which I desire Letters Patent, is as follows: y

1. In'a vehicle wheel, a hub, a plurality of spokes mounted in the hub, a tubular mem- -ber mounted on the outer end of each of said spokes, a rim, a plurality of socket members secured to said rim and telescopically fitting over said tubular members andv said spokes. a spring for each of said spokes surrounded by said tubular member and said sockets and adapted-to press against the bottom of said sockets and the ends of said spokes. the outer rim normally spaced from sa'i'd first mentioned rim, a plurality of spaced springs arranged between said rims. and bolts for holding said rims against independent rotary n'ioveinent,said bolts extending through said springs for holding thc same in proper place.

52. In a vehicle wheel, a hub, a plurality of spokes secured thereto, a rim, a spring positioned between the outer end of each of said spokes and said rim, said rim being formed with a pluralityof sockets in the periphery thereof, an outer rim formed with a plurality of sockets on the inner periphery thereof and arranged opposite the sockets in the first mentioned rim, a spring arranged to fit into eachpair of socketsefor resiliently holdl ing said outer rim spaced from said first mentioned rim` and a bolt extending through each of Asaid last mentioned springs, said outer rim and said first mentioned rim, for holding said last mentioned springs in position for preventing any movement of one of said rims independent of the other.

3. In a wheel, a hub, spokes radiating 5 dependent rotative movements, and resilient Witnesses:

outer, rim, surrounding the first mentioned In testimony-whereof I 1have atlixed Vmy rim and spaced'therefrom, bolts uniting the signature, in presence of two witnesses.

sockets to the inne;` rim and also connecting the two rims and holding them against in-I means interposed between vthe rims and hold- M. MUnnooK,' ingr them spaced apart. l'.D. J. KILKENNY.

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